Hosting Features:  

BlueHost offer the most extensive list of shopping cart options and nearly the highest level of programming support we've seen. They also offer several free script plug-ins such as, chat, blogs, polls, web auctions and bulletin boards.

For Ecommerce hosting, BlueHost charges extra for a SSL secure certificate and Paymerica credit card processing, but give you the option of using just about every shopping cart system available.

They support several languages including CGI, PHP, Perl, Front Page and MySQL Databases. The ecommerce tools include a free shopping cart and the ability to track website traffic.

Bluehost offers the same control panel as our #2 choice, Lunarpages. The control panel displays over 40 icons that link to various management features. Most of the control icons, menus and feature options are logically placed and presented.

The five functions accessible through the control panel include account, email and database management and web protection/security and statistics. Statistics relate visitor information, pages that contain errors or missing images and bandwidth usage information.

BlueHost now offers a convenient 30-day money back guarantee, which is never a bad thing.

Bluehost offers exceptional bandwidth and storage for a low price, and if they keep up their service levels, they could become one of the top web hosts around.